瑜伽論記 3.174

3.174

The answer states: "In the present lifetime and subsequent lifetimes, consciousness down to feeling, and the branches subsumed within the states of birth and aging-and-death." This explains that the branch of consciousness taking rebirth in continuity, both the projector and the projected, exist simultaneously; being far removed from the fruit, both are called pulling causes. Because the producer and the fruit belong to two different lifetimes, the direct producer alone is called the originating cause. The Cheng weishi lun states: "Producing proximate direct fruits is called the originating cause; pulling distant residual fruits is called the pulling cause." For the three natures and ten causes, refer to the separate chapter; because this explains defilement, it does not contradict other teachings.